Search Engines

Bing is a search engine that automatically crawls the web to build an index of new and updated pages (or URLs) to display as search results relevant to a user-initiated search or action.

It focuses on four target areas: shopping, travel, local and health. The aim is to simplify the search.

There are autosuggestions, currency conversions and result tabs for images, videos, news and shopping.

Both Google and Bing are search engines, however there are some differences between the two. Bing offers autosuggestions which are complete. Google offers less such suggestions.

Bing has 6.7% market share (Feb 2021) Google enjoys 84% market share. In the mobile market, the lead extends to 95 per cent.

DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Yahoo, Startpage.com, Qwant, Swisscows and Ask are other search engines.

Yahoo indexes more websites than Bing. Bing shows content-based results. There are securities issues with both. Bing is far more secure.

There are advance search operators who can help you refine your search results.

Google is an 800 pound gorilla in the search space. It too has powered itself by Bard.

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